Veritas NetBackup™ Release Notes
- About NetBackup 8.3.0.1
- New features, enhancements, and changes
- About new enhancements and changes in NetBackup
- NetBackup 8.3.0.1 new features, changes, and enhancements
- NetBackup now supports data immutability and indelibility with the MSDP WORM instance in Flex Appliance
- Changes to user session default values
- NetBackup with SAN client 16-gigabit target mode HBA support
- Updates to the NetBackup for OpenStack plug-in
- NetBackup supports SSL-enabled (HTTPS) clusters of Hadoop and HBase
- NetBackup 8.3.0.1 support additions and changes
- New cloud providers and region support
- Operational notes
- About NetBackup 8.3.0.1 operational notes
- NetBackup installation and upgrade operational notes
- After initiating CA migration, connection errors may occur
- If NetBackup 8.3.0.1 upgrade fails on Windows, revert to previous log folder structure
- Native installation requirements
- NetBackup servers must use a host name that is compliant with RFC 1123 and RFC 952
- Do not install from the menu that appears when the installation DVD is inserted
- About support for HP-UX Itanium vPars SRP containers
- NetBackup administration and general operational notes
- The nbdeployutil utility may fail to generate usage reports for traditional licensing
- Backups for workloads that use the BigData policy may fail
- Child backup jobs may enter a queued state for workloads that use BigData policy
- Errors are shown in the jobs detail when NetBackup attempts to expire images from non-WORM capable storage
- NetBackup web server certificate renewal failure during initiation of NetBackup CA migration or upgrade
- Microsoft Azure backup fails if the resource group name contains a period (.)
- SLP does not retry multistreaming backup if child job fails or is canceled
- Granular restores require adequate available space on target
- Stale devices shown on the device tree
- NetBackup administration interface operational notes
- Search limitations for security events lists in the NetBackup web UI
- Using X forwarding to launch the NetBackup Administration Console can fail on certain Linux platforms
- Intermittent issues with X forwarding of NetBackup Administration Console
- NetBackup Administration Console fails in Simplified Chinese UTF-8 locale on Solaris SPARC 64-bit systems with Solaris 10 Update 2 or later
- NetBackup Bare Metal Restore operational notes
- NetBackup Cloud operational notes
- NetBackup with Veritas CloudPoint operational notes
- Public cloud not supported with gov cloud or China region
- Indexing not supported on instances created from AWS Marketplaces AMIs
- Consistent host snapshot might fail
- Image clean-up may fail for Microsoft Azure workloads
- Configuring AWS plug-in with IAM role showed that the Authentication Method field is blank
- MongoDB create snapshot job may freeze
- Updating a cloud plug-in while a job runs causes job failure
- Permission denied error occurs if both user and password are updated
- Different source and target zones for Google Cloud Platform are not supported
- Broken files system detected
- NetBackup deduplication operational notes
- NetBackup internationalization and localization operational notes
- NetBackup for NDMP operational notes
- NetBackup Snapshot Client operational notes
- NetBackup virtualization operational notes
- Appendix A. About SORT for NetBackup Users
- Appendix B. NetBackup installation requirements
- Appendix C. NetBackup compatibility requirements
- Appendix D. Other NetBackup documentation and related documents
About NetBackup installation requirements
This release of NetBackup may contain changes to the minimum system requirements and procedures that are required for installation. These changes affect the minimum system requirements for both Windows and UNIX platforms. Much of the installation instructional information in the NetBackup Release Notes is provided for convenience. Detailed installation instructions are found in the NetBackup Installation Guide, the NetBackup Upgrade Guide, and the NetBackup Getting Started Guide.
See NetBackup installation and upgrade operational notes.
Before you upgrade the NetBackup server software, you must back up your NetBackup catalogs and verify that the catalog backup was successful.
Database rebuilds are likely to occur in each major, minor (single-dot), and release update (double-dot) version of NetBackup. Therefore, before upgrading to NetBackup 8.3.0.1, you must ensure that you have an amount of free disk space available that is equal to or greater than the size of the NetBackup database. That means for default installations, you are required to have that amount of free space on the file system containing the
/usr/openv/db/data(UNIX) or<install_path>\Veritas\NetBackupDB\data(Windows) directories. If you have changed the location of some of the files in either of these directories, free space is required in those locations equal to or greater than the size of the files in those locations. Refer to the NetBackup Administrator's Guide, Volume I for more information about storing NBDB database files in alternate locations.Note:
This free disk space requirement assumes that you have already performed the best practice of completing a successful catalog backup before you begin the upgrade.
Master and media servers must have a minimum soft limit of 8000 file descriptors per process for NetBackup to run correctly.
For more information about the effects of an insufficient number of file descriptors, refer to the following tech note on the Veritas Support website:
NetBackup master and media servers exchange server version information at startup, and every 24 hours. This exchange occurs automatically. During startup after an upgrade, the upgraded media server uses the vmd service to push its version information to all of the servers that are listed in its server list.
Veritas recommends that you have the master server services up and available during a media server upgrade.
All compressed files are compressed using gzip. The installation of these files requires gunzip and gzip, so make sure that they are installed on the computer before you attempt to install NetBackup. For all UNIX platforms except HP-UX, the binaries are expected to be in /bin or /usr/bin and that directory is a part of the root user's PATH variable. On HP-UX systems, the gzip and gunzip commands are expected to be in /usr/contrib/bin. Installation scripts add that directory to the PATH variable. These commands must be present to have successful UNIX installations.